Quote: from “Atlas Shrugged” – Ayn Rand
By jdgoodwyne on Jun 16, 2010 in Blog
From “Atlas Shrugged” by Ayn Rand. I bought this tiny version because it was $10 at B&N, instead of this $25 version which is not in fact $25. To the quote:
“She stopped tonight, as usual, to buy a package of cigarettes. “How is the collection?” she asked him. “Any new specimens?”
He smiled sadly, shaking his head. “No, Miss Taggart. There aren’t any new brands made anywhere in the world. Even the old ones are going, one after another. There’s only five or six kinds left selling now. There used to be dozens. People aren’t making anything new anymore.”
“They will. That’s only temporary.”
He glanced at her and did not answer. Then he said, “I like cigarettes, Miss Taggart. I like to think of fire held in a man’s hand. Fire, a dangerous force, tamed at his fingertips. I often wonder about the hours when a man sits alone, watching the smoke of a cigarette, thinking, I wonder what great things have come from such hours. When a man thinks, there is a spot of fire alive in his mind–and it is proper that he should have the burning point of a cigarette as his one expression.”
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